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* Mission To promote excellence in learning * To serve as a gateway to information vital for research and scholarship * To create unique scholarly resources with an emphasis on philanthropic studies, IUPUI generated research, and materials relating to central Indiana * To enhance the availability of scholarly information for the residents of central Indiana enIUPUI Faculty Taking Advantage of the Digital Scholarship Fundhttp://www-lib.iupui.edu/node/49118
<p>A few years ago Dean Lewis implemented a fund to assist faculty who are interested in developing digital collections that will enhance and advance their research agenda.&nbsp; Faculty can use the fund to explore new modes of analysis, creation and dissemination where technology plays a significant role.&nbsp;</p><p><b>Faculty Highlight</b></p><p>In 2011 I began working with Dr. Bob White to create an online and open-access collection that offers resources for students, teachers, and scholars that are interested in Irish History, Irish politics, social movements, political activism, and “terrorism.”</p><p>According to Dr. White, “The Irish Republican Movement Collection provides unique resources for the understanding the transformation of Provisional Irish Republicanism and for understanding those who opposed that transformation, including contemporary ‘dissident’ Irish Republicans."</p><p>The collection includes 4 Irish Newspapers and a streaming video created by Dr. White.&nbsp; <br /> <a href="http://ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/collections/IrishRepublicanMovement">http://ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/collections/IrishRepublicanMovement</a></p><p><a href="http://www-lib.iupui.edu/node/49118" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:28:03 +0000jennajoh49118 at http://www-lib.iupui.eduCreating Cultural Heritage and Faculty Research Digital Collections: Less about process and more about human interactionhttp://www-lib.iupui.edu/node/44691
<p class="MsoNormal">The evolution of creating a digital project includes various steps moving from project idea to digital collection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>While the idea to digitize is simple in theory, there are different ways to approach the digitization process. The creation of a massive digitization project is markedly different than that of a cultural heritage institution collection or faculty research project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The goal of mass digitization is not to create collections but to digitize everything, or in this case, every book every printed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>(Colye, 2006). The creation of digital collections for cultural heritage institutions and faculty research projects is less about the methodology of digitization and more about the human interaction between the partnering institutions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The interaction becomes a personal journey of selection and description of materials that strives to capture and provide online access to the history of the institution. </p><p><a href="http://www-lib.iupui.edu/node/44691" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:16:22 +0000jennajoh44691 at http://www-lib.iupui.edu